Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 03:49:54 +0200 From: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: dgilbert@velocet.ca Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek Message-ID: <xzpel4ogv99.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20030330.182856.133749733.imp@bsdimp.com> ("M. Warner Losh"'s message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2003 18:28:56 -0700 (MST)") References: <200303301145.12141.wes@softweyr.com> <16007.22614.840137.999671@canoe.velocet.net> <xzpof3sgxy4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030330.182856.133749733.imp@bsdimp.com>
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"M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes: > In message: <xzpof3sgxy4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> > des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes: > : Not to mention the fact that over the past year or so people have been > : repeatedly picking the dc driver apart and putting it back together > : with some bits missing, so for some cards it has gone from working > : perfectly, to getting the MAC address wrong but working fine after you > : manually set it, to plainly refusing to attach to the card. My laptop > : is now practically reduced to a doorstop since -STABLE doesn't have > : Cardbus support and -CURRENT refuses to attach to the NIC. > > As far as I know, all the sizing and weirdness issues have been worked > out with dc. Care to provide details on the card that isn't? It's an IBM branded Xircom card which used to work perfectly (except for some trouble with underruns which another nearly identical card didn't have... but I lost the dongle for that one). FRU 34L5309 if you want to look up the datasheet. About a year ago, subsequent to changes in the dc driver, -CURRENT started getting the MAC address wrong (but it would still attach, so I could set the correct MAC address manually). At some later point, some time between October 2002 and February 2003 (during which time I didn't run -CURRENT on the laptop due to insufficient disk space), it went from getting the MAC address wrong to not finding it at all (I believe it reports "No station address in CIS!") and refusing to attach. I have a couple of 16-bit cards lying around, but oldcard couldn't even find the slots, let alone the cards I put in. I haven't tried 4.8 as it would be useless for me (I need the laptop for development work on -CURRENT). The only alternative left is SLIP, which would prevent me from using the laptop as a serial console since it only has one port - but it turns out 5.0-RELEASE is unable to use the serial port. That may be a BIOS problem though, the BIOS seems to regularly reset random configuration options (such as the "IRDA, what IRDA? I don't need no stinking IRDA" option) to factory defaults. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@ofug.org
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